On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:05:16 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
Shouldn't the Buildrequires statements only include those packages needed by the package to build?
Yes it should. Until recently, SUSE used a different mechanism to specify packages needed to build a given package. These packages where listed on a line at the top of a .spec file beginning with #neededforbuild. The named packages could either be real packages or aliases for a whole bunch of packages like gnome-devel-packages pulling in everything needed to compile GNOME apps. To make the openSUSE Build Service viable, these neededforbuild where turned into BuildRequires and the list of packages trimmed down to those really needed. To err is human, so one or the other package might have been left in BuildRequires rather then be removed. If you discover something like that, please file a bug report with https://bugzilla.novell.com so that the maintainer of the package can correct it. Philipp